Meaning not yet researched.
Samari: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 51 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,160 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,160 in 2007; #3,161 in 2025. About 69% of babies named Samari in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,161 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #2,160.
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Samari: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 51 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,160 in 2007 · most girls in one year: 93 (2007).
In 2025, 51 US girls were named Samari, making it the 3,161st most common girls’ name of the year, down 752 places from #2,409 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 76 girls named Samari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,160, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 93. For comparison, it was #4,214 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Samari, making it the 4,512th most common boys’ name of the year, down 836 places from #3,676 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 31 boys named Samari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,302, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #5,697 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Samari in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 7 babies. In all, 2,198 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 906 babies named Samari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 496 US girls were named Samari; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 76. In 2025 that was about 1 in 31,515 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Samaria (4,511 babies since 1880) and Zamari (2,242 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Samory are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Samory (26).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Samari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 51 | #3,161 | 23 | #4,512 |
| 2024 | 76 | #2,409 | 31 | #3,676 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,640 | 25 | #4,318 |
| 2022 | 51 | #3,210 | 21 | #4,821 |
| 2021 | 49 | #3,289 | 22 | #4,600 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,991 | 24 | #4,255 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,375 | 16 | #5,757 |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,833 | 19 | #5,072 |
| 2017 | 43 | #3,616 | 15 | #6,020 |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,070 | 22 | #4,590 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,214 | 16 | #5,697 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,220 | 18 | #5,222 |
| 2013 | 49 | #3,307 | 23 | #4,288 |
| 2012 | 57 | #3,000 | 10 | #8,033 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,834 | 24 | #4,194 |
| 2010 | 82 | #2,337 | 30 | #3,614 |
| 2009 | 77 | #2,481 | 33 | #3,388 |
| 2008 | 87 | #2,265 | 43 | #2,820 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,160 | 29 | #3,675 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,845 | 27 | #3,760 |
| 2005 | 53 | #3,047 | 34 | #3,076 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,645 | 50 | #2,302 |
| 2003 | 37 | #3,796 | 23 | #3,824 |
| 2002 | 37 | #3,644 | 35 | #2,739 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,423 | 40 | #2,473 |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,867 | 22 | #3,733 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,158 | 11 | #5,971 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,646 | 13 | #5,116 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,607 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,343 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,614 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,653 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,965 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,062 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,242 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,119 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).